PICA DISK

Pica Disk is run by Lasse Marhaug and is specialised in, well, noise and experimental music. Since 2007 he has produced releases by his own Jazkamer, incredible CD boxes by Kevin Drumm, Government Alpha or Incapacitants, albums featuring Oren Ambarchi, Maja Ratkje, Tony Conrad and more.

"Stine Janvin Motland is a vocal performer from Stavanger, Norway. She has been active for a number of years in different constellations and as a solo performer, but In Labour is her debut solo album. Stine has a distinct way of working with her voice - with a strong ...
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"The final release in Jazkamer's 2010 series is a 4CD Box-set. CD1: Wind On Wednesday, Previously unreleased first album from 1998. CD2: Compilation Tracks, 16 tracks selected from various compilations 2000-2007. CD3: Vinyl on CD, First CD version of the "Turntable ...
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""Metal Music Machine 2" is the sequel to Jazkamer's 2006 metal album "Metal Music Machine". It is recorded with the same line-up, in the same studio, and continues the paths laid out by the first album; Jazkamer exploring the deep dark fjords of metal. From 80's German ...
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"Pica Disk is proud to present "Bats in the Attic" - Keränen's solo debut full-length CD. This album has arrived to shatter Finland's pristine reputation. You thought they were a bunch of bland mobile-phone-touting Nords? Think again: from the swamps they came and to a ...
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""Failed State of Mind" is Jazkamer's 25th studio album. Most people know of the infamous "that difficult 25th album", but for Jazkamer the landmark number appears to have given no difficulties, as "Failed State of Mind" is the most mellow and easy-on-the-ears recording ...
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""Peanuts" is a mixture of location recordings and percussion, and can be seen as a continuation of the music Jazzkammer explored on the albums "Timex" (2000) and "Pancakes" (2002); carefully construced transparent sound-surfaces. One track also features turntable ...
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"On "Matthew 28:17" Jazkamer for the first time in the 2010 Monthly Series operates as its core duo of Lasse Marhaug and John Hegre. This reduction does little to lighten the density of their sound, rather the opposite, because "Matthew 28:17" is a thick haze of dopey ...
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""Cover by Hair Stylstics" is the july edition of Jazkamer's ongoing 2010 monthly Compact Disc series. This month's album finds Hegre and Marhaug joined by Iver Sandřy playing noisecore. Noisecore is a crossover between grindcore and noise music. One could call it ...
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"The June edition of Jazkamer's 2010 monthly CD-series. A big-band noise extravagansa. The first studio recording of the Metal Music Machine line-up; two drummers, electronics and three guitars. Artwork by Justin Bartlett." (label info) more »

"The February edition of Jazkamer's 2010 monthly CD-series. "Musica Non Grata" is a feedback-fest. Armed with guitars and analogue synths and an arsenal of amps, Hegre, Gross and Marhaug locked themselves into Duper Studios in Bergen, exploring how feedback-timbre ...
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"The January edition of Jazkamer's 2010 monthly CD-series. A trio recording of Jean-Philippe Gross, John Hegre and Lasse Marhaug. Studio live-electronics recorded to analog tape at Duper Studios in Bergen. Edited and post-produced by Gross. A dense tapestry of perfect ...
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"The forth entry in Ratkje and Marhaug's "Music For"-collaborative series. After Shopping (2002), Loving (2004) and Faking (2005) comes... Gardening. The title is inspired by Ratkje's new life in the coutryside. The seven tracks on this CD are meant to inspire the ...
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"Classic Japanese Harsh Noise. Deluxe 4CD box-set with a selection of 62 tracks from cassette releases in the years 1992 to 1999, originally on labels like Harbinger Sound, Mother Savage Noise Productions, Hospital Productions, Utsu Tapes, American Tapes and of course ...
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"Incapacitants needs no introduction; the duo of Fumio Kosakai and T.Mikawa; veterans and originators of Japanese noise music; cult band number one for noise fanatics worldwide; a band whose infamous status as the best live noise act ever has continued to grow over the ...
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"Hijokaidan has since 1979 been one of the leading voices in Japanese noise music. Starting out with a broad line-up of performers, eventually in the course of the 80-ies the Hijokaidan sound became easily identifiable with the shredding guitar-sound of band-leader Jojo ...
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"Birchville Cat Motel is the project of New Zealander Campbell Kneale, who has from his base in Lower Hutt since the mid 90-ies established himself as the leading voice of this generation of NZ sound artists. Gunpowder Temple of Heaven is a new highlight in his ...
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